Environmental Justice

Carbon Trade Watch (CTW) is part of TNI’s Environmental Justice Programme and is a leading critic of carbon trading and other proposed free-market mechanisms to tackle climate change. The project combines multimedia and popular education work with cutting edge research, and supports grassroots movements promoting a radical critique on climate justice.

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After our Copenhagen self-goal

The Copenhagen Accord represents an ignominious retreat from the urgent and universal imperative of combating climate change through cooperative global action. It needs to be replaced with an ambitious, legally...

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Bolivia provides resistance and hope at Brokenhagen

Thanks to the courage of Bolivia and a few other nations – and against huge pressure and threats to sign the deal - the UN did not endorse or adopt the vacuous Copenhagen Accord but instead were forced to use...

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Climate Chronicle

The Climate justice newspaper is produced every two days during the Copenhagen climate talks, reporting and decoding what is going on both inside and outside the climate negotiations. Find out what is really going on...

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The Story of Cap & Trade

Producers of the renowned Story of stuff animation have released a new compelling animation that critiques Cap and Trade. TNI's Carbon Trade Watch were part of a team of advisers behind the film. View the...

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Direct action against climate change

As politicians meet for more climate talks in Barcelona, they continue to be fixated on measures like carbon trading that will only exacerbate the climate crisis. Fortunately the last year in the UK and worldwide has...

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Glaciers are still melting…

Praful Bidwai

Oct 25 2010

Although an estimate of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on rapid recession of Himalayan glaciers has become a political issue in India, its scientific foundations are quite solid.

Himalayan blunder

Praful Bidwai

Feb 15 2010

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should create a special commission to cross-check all references in its report if errors such as the one on Himalayan glaciers are not to recur.

The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity

Feb 4 2010

Neoliberal market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which
threatens human civilisation. Climate destruction, resource wars, and
the replacement of democracy by an oligarchy face us if we don't act
now to reduce the burden we place on our planet and reorganise society
on a more egalitarian basis.

Really inconvenient truth

Saul Landau

Feb 4 2010

Most political leaders face a challenge they refuse to acknowledge: to gain control of runaway climate change they must abandon convenience, the unchallenged assumptions that place the corporation as means and ends of policies.

Energy and Climate Change: C+

Daphne Wysham

Jan 22 2010

In his first few months in office, Obama did take some significant actions to address climate change, but failed to follow through.

China: The Prince of Denmark

Walden Bello

Jan 21 2010

Like Hamlet, Shakespeare's conflicted Prince of Denmark, China was caught between conflicting currents in Copenhagen. Its failure to manage these challenges led to its biggest diplomatic debacle in years.

Fouling up the air

Praful Bidwai

Jan 12 2010

India has become collusive in the weak and inequitable Copenhagen Accord. The government must correct course if India’s poor are not to suffer further.

On the Copenhagen UN climate summit or why you need more than butter to bake a cake

Beatriz Martinez

Jan 8 2010

So it seems that for once everyone agrees on something: the UN climate summit in Copenhagen was a spectacular failure. That is quite an achievement in itself, since consensus seems a rarity in these times.

Copenhagen cop out

Praful Bidwai

Dec 30 2009

It is apparent to everyone that the Copenhagen Accord is a travesty of what the world needs to avert climate change.

Climate after Copenhagen

Boris Kagarlitsky

Dec 28 2009

The reason for the failure in Copenhagen is clear - rather than discuss coordinated efforts, countries lobbied for their particular interests. Everything now depends on individual states and their respective blocs.